Book Review |
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The Children of Green Knowe |
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By
Lucy Boston |
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another free book from Tetley Tea Bags - they have some great offers and my mum likes
their tea best! It is an old book which was written in 1954 and Lucy Boston was born in 1892! It is part of the Puffin Modern Classic series and I have a lot of them, they are always good. The story is about a little boy who has to go to boarding school because his parents live in another country. I do not think I would like that and he does not seem to like it much either. He has to go to his great grandmothers for the holidays and he is not looking forward to it but he finds it is not what he thought it would be like at all! The boy's name is Toseland which is an odd name but he is called Tolly for short and he finds that his great gran lives in a very old house that lots of other people from their family have lived in for years and years and years. It is a strange house and he soon discovers it has ghosts! Not scarey, creepy ghosts but the ghosts of the children who used to live there and died. It was a little scarey in places but not too much and I liked the little boy Tolly very much. He seemed nice and kind and I would have liked to be him and discover all the things he discovered and live in the big old house. I would not have liked my parents to go off to live in another country and leave me in a boarding school though! His great gran seemed really nice too and she knew a lot of things and she could see the ghosts too so they could talk about them together. The drawings are mostly line drawings in black and white but the cover is quite a nice painting of a boy and a house. It says in the back of the book - in the Afterword - that the house really exists. It is an old Norman manor house and Lucy Boston bought it an lived in it and wrote stories about it. I would like to visit it. It is a nice book and not too scarey so I would recommend it to 6 and over if they can read it or have it read to them. There are other stories about Green Knowe too but I have not read them yet. Iestyn Evans May 1999 |
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